TPO 3 Independent Writing Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

There is no doubt about the benefits of having friends in our life. Friendship make our lives energetic and vigorous. Some people believe that maintaining old friends is more important than making a new one. Others think that new friend has more advantages and benefits. So, it raises a controversial question whether keeping old friendships are as important as making a new one or not. In my perspective, I strongly believe that trying to make new friends has much more importance. In what follows, I will pinpoint the two most prominent rationals to elaborate my standpoint.

First of all, people usually move around due to changing their jobs. There are lots of unpredictable circumstances which obligates people to alter their hometown inevitably. As a result, it is highly apt that we become distant from our old friends gradually over time. Although we can remain in touch with them through the cellphone, email and even video chat, but it is not satisfactory and enough.

My own experience is a great example of this. Five months ago, when I moved to USA, I left behind my family, friends, language, culture and everything. Hence, I was forced to find new friends to spend time with. Making new friends really helped me to get through the difficulties of immigration.

Secondly, as we grow up, our thoughts, beliefs and emotions are changed. We can establish a new friendship based on our personal characteristics. Old friends might not understand us since we have lost common beliefs and interests. Friendships are supposed to boost our energy and help us feel better. Spending time with someone who has the same interests and hobbies could motivate us to live better. I used to have a friend who was not interested in going to the museum as I was not either in the past. When I went to the university my interest changed because I passed some courses related to history. I really enjoy going to the museum and seeing the historical items. I could not persuade my old friend to accompany me, so I decided to make a new friend from my history class.

Based on what is discussed, I personally believe that making new friends is more advantageous since we might become distant from our old friends. Also, our interests are altered over time which leads to lose our common interests with our old friends.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, really, second, secondly, so, as for, no doubt, as a result, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1924.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84634760705 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7645039963 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534005037783 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 590.4 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.6428054283 48.9658058833 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.0 100.406767564 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2692307692 20.6045352989 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92307692308 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 11.8709677419 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232123924083 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706660254512 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719283485376 0.0737576698707 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137633417566 0.150856017488 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688384822565 0.0645574589148 107% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.002688172 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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